Category: CEMurphy

Release Day: Owl Be Home for Christmas

December 8, 2025

My Virtue Shifters Christmas novella, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is available now! FURTHERMORE, for four days only – Monday, December 8th through Thursday, Dec 11th – all the Virtue box sets are ON SALE! This sale is the perfect opportunity to introduce yourself (or someone else!) to the Virtue Shifters, or indulge yourself in a cozy holiday re-read of a dozen* happily-ever-after romcoms! Whoo-ooo says you can’t go home? Owl shifter and romcom-film-star Kayla Walsh never intended to come home to Virtue, but it’s the perfect small town for…

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Announcements!!!

October 17, 2025

ANNOUNCEMENT 1: I will be GUEST OF HONO(U)R at Octocon in Cork, Ireland, along with the inestimable Adrian Tchaikovsky, over October 3-4, 2026! This is an excellent excuse to visit Ireland, right? :D (Seriously, it is: Octocon is an intimate, cozy little convention where you really get to spend time with everybody, and I’d LOVE to see people there!) ANNOUNCEMENT 2: Speaking of cozy! I have just signed the contract for A PINT OF MURDER, a new cozy mystery set in Ireland! I’ll be writing under the name Cate Malone…

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Release Day: GORILLA IN THE GROOVE

September 16, 2025

My new paranormal romance, GORILLA IN THE GROOVE, is available now! (amazon affilate link) Dancing is no monkey business… Irina has spent her whole life working toward the dream of a lifetime: participating in an Irish dance competition in Ireland itself. And now that she’s here…she’s terrified! But Irina is determined to make the best of it even if she’s afraid—and meeting huge, gorgeous DJ Mick is the first step in the right direction. He’s going ape over her… All gorilla shifter Mick wants to do is reassure his mate…but…

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Recent Reads: A HONEYMOON OF GRAVE CONSEQUENCE

September 4, 2025

Recent Reads: A HONEYMOON OF GRAVE CONSEQUENCE by Stephanie Burgis – this is absolutely charming. I read an advance copy of this second in a series of novellas about Lord Riven, Vampire, and Lady Riven, Scholar, whose situationship we’re introduced to in A MARRIAGE OF UNDEAD CONVENIENCE and continues on now (and hopefully for quite some time after this!). I liked MARRIAGE very much, and HONEYMOON is better: it’s nearly twice as long, and the length helps the story to feel more complete within itself (my only problem with MARRIAGE…

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Release Day: Renaissance Bear

July 9, 2025

If you’re just here for the links, RENAISSANCE BEAR, the third book in the Renaissance Shifter series, is now available at Amazon! There was an unavoidable delay with the print edition, which will be out in a couple of weeks. Sorry about that! AAAAAAH I love these covers/this series so much I’m having so much fun with it breaaaaaathes okay here you go: Grizzly shifter Jon Torben is planning a summer of sword-fighting and beer-drinking at his home town’s annual Renaissance Faire…up until the moment that he lays eyes on…

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